Landlords must ask their prospective tenants why they are moving. Most tenants will be honest but others will prevaricate if they think their reasons for moving would make landlords turn them away. Since most tenants won't admit that they have been evicted, should landlords bother asking them that question? Most landlords don't. Do you?
Evictions that go to court and are filed as judgments against you are treated as public records on a credit report. Most apartment complexes are going to do a background check and credit check to make sure they know who's moving in and if they are going to be reliable in paying the rent every month.
Over here, I have no known case of eviction except for the celebrated cases where the tenant would fight the landlord in court. But almos always, the tenant loses the case because tthe landlord has all the rights to his property. A tenant can be evicted for the reason of the landlord's family or close relative to be using the unit. The law is clear on that - the landlord owns his property and no other person can decide for him even at the presence of a lease contract provided the new purpose of the property owner is for his personal use.
Depends on the state you live in, but in some states, evictions do indeed show up either in court documents, credit reports, or both. It will stay there for seven long painful years.... and if you've got unpaid rent that goes to collections, that's ANOTHER ding on your credit report from the mess.
Gee, it looks like a bad thing to be evicted from your residence since it will affect your credit background. Over here, we don't have such report because the credit database is not centralized - each bank and financial institutions for credit cards have their own database although some are in a sharing mode. So maybe this will somehow tame the tenants because a peeved landlord may invent a case against a tenant for eviction. That can happen here, a landlord forcing a tenant to leave.
I was never evicted because I never rented a home, I am buying mine for some years now, but I do know people that didn't pay and were evicted, it's not an easy process.
Eviction can happen for a number of reasons though, and sometimes it's not that persons fault. When doing a background check, I also think it's important to get the full story from that person as to what happened, instead of just going off what is on the report.
I was evicted from a place I didn't actually live in. I was erroneously included on the eviction paperwork for a family members place even though I wasn't a signer or party to the lease. It wasn't verified before it went to court and the eviction was filed and served before I found out. I did not live there and there was proof of my residence elsewhere at the time. It was a nightmare to sort out.
Gee, that's a very sad situation you are in. I agree that it is a nightmare since I have learned (from this thread) that being evicted can affect your credit standing. Now maybe you will be needing a lawyer to sort out the mess for you. Over here, cases like that can be appealed although you have to spend money for the lawyer and spend time for the hearing. However, I just can't understand why your name was inadvertently included in the eviction case.